A decision to seek the death penalty would need consent from a cadre of top Justice Department officials and a U.S. attorney general cool to capital punishment in general.
The FBI's fingerprints are all over the Buffalo mass shooting. A local news report from the Buffalo News has linked a retired federal agent to the shooting because he apparently knew about [.]
Investigators think Payton Gendron may have shared his mass shooting plot with a retired federal agent on Discord 30 minutes before the shooting. The pair were in a racist hate forum on Discord together.
Investigators are looking into whether a former federal agent had advanced notice about alleged Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron's plans to murder Black people at the Tops Friendly Supermarket.
Buffalo authorities are investigating whether a former agent had advance knowledge of the gunman's plan to murder black people at a supermarket, authorities told the Buffalo News.